The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly), 1 June 1899

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    17 1 THE Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. WEEKLY MAIL EDITION. HIP') SERIES JUNE Ist, ?1899. No, 618
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  • Domestic Occurrences
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      BIRTHS.
      42 1 A r "Sans Snut i," St 1 VV S >ga. L p^re, o' May ?j h. .ol A. Cameron, K. K. 'IM Co f rlau^liter At v Devon Villa mi stant, the wife 04 (OHM M. Wait. (Hon Rr_k Lto Jof
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    THE WEEK.
    257 1 I he t Outward m iii of the sth was brought on Monday by tht M. M. Sydney. Ihe next mail is due on Saturday the jrd June. This Homeward mail is carried by the Par* ramatta leaving on Kridav I he Hall in honour of the Queen's
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    20 1 »:l the Pkm the P« ;■>"• right maintain, nnbribed by gain; et elorioui precepts draw, Retieion, Loyalty, and f aw. j
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    Violence TO A Lady Cyclist.
    593 1 May 25th. ll was only the Other day that v\e recorded a dtstardly attack by Chinamen on ladies at Hongkong, in a case where two ladies walking alo* g Bowen Road were bustled down the bank inte> the thicket and itlib'-'l of their valuable.-. Great
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    CONTENTS.
    145 1 PI ihppines, ,7 imok, 3.-^8 .in I_. I« > kad }3---1 at Park s v. s. 139 Board, N tt XVI 49 Pen 1: X.OR., Mfl 1 ing, 345 I U' 1 I X ilysisof I J I -CU If < j I Sei ingoon, j 10 •1 Singapore,
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    America AND THE Philippinies.
    832 1 America AND THE Philippini es. (May 26th.) 10-DAY we have news ol the breakdown of the g ttati ins for c between the Filipino envoys and the American Philippine Commissioners. At first sight that may st em to be a most re grettable result of the effort to arrive at
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    • Advertisement
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      146 1 'cc Pre^s Weekly E pc to tbe Straits by any of ed to end to the Manager 11 and daft- of arrival in opies wiil Mitra be ma led to mert i call. aser Gumming *:-7< Battery Koad. it ls ]ohore Bharu. WORRS i^Sirangoon and BalesurTimber Merchants. PRIME HARD-WOOD, cut
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    • Advertisement
      Page 1 Advertisements Column 2
      161 1 Messrs. G. R LAMBERT Co Having added considerably to their already large collection of Singapore Views and Types arc now ottering them with New Jpanese other Albums v l .hi Views of Bangkok, and Native States &c. A large collection ot New Photogravures Prom Messrs. MAKION 0., with special cheap
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    A Terrible Amok.
    677 2 May 2Qth.) 'Im sensation ol to-day is the saneui--4> 1 ir) case of amok that occurred, as fully related elsewhen Satutd v night, is the S.S. Sri Pontia tak was close to the Horsburgh Light, appioachiug Singapore on her voyage iiom Pontianak. One remarkable feature about the
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    A Yunnan Trip Dropped.
    482 2 (May 3 0.h.) ONE of the most significant items of recent news is concerned with what is understood and declared plentifully in French Indo-China newspapers to be the extensive programme of the expansion of French influence in not only South Western China but even the Western
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    A New American Blockade.
    341 2 (.lay 3i»t.) ALL concerned in trade with the Philip. pines will do well to note the very remarkable position of affairs now existing in that Archioela-o in regard to new restric-t-on, on access to Philippine ports by the American naval authorities. The Wilte? the Wisp, Captain
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    THE VANISHED MONROE DOCTRINE.
    168 2 It is not easy to see how the Monroe docttine can continue to exist after the United States has decided that Old-World territory in the Philippines is a proper aiea lor American territorial adventure. The j corollary must be that New- World territory is everywhere equally
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    THE MURDER OF COLONEL LE MARCHANE.
    324 2 THE MURDER OF COLONEL LE MAR CHANE. I Ihe following description < t themuider of LieutColonel E. 11. l.c Marchant, of the Hampshire regiment, at Pesh wv ur, .on March ?4 last, is taken from the letter ol a private in llie Royal Scots Fusiliers lo a friend We had
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    NAVAL NOTES.
    232 2 ■he End cruiser, now attached t«> the Medwa) Fleet Reserve, hat ham, is ordered to be brought forward it Chatham for Commission in June next. S-eis to relieve the Grafton, < aptain F. W. Fisher on the China station. The Admiralty have, we believe, been again approached in
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    A NEW AMERICAN BLOCKADE IN THE PHILIPPINES.
    418 2 A NEW AMERICAN BLOCKADE IN THE PHILIPPINES. In an interview this morning tain Willock on board the S s W Wisp, now lying oil Johnsb following information was giv. presentative of this journal lock says that about ten da> lying at anchor off Xanr American man-of-war Ca and six marines
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    SULU.
    269 2 Labuan, Ma) The s S. Will o the li his here, from Zamboanga. She left I ten days ago, for Sulu then cargo, and wt nt on to Zamboanga she received immediate notice American war ship there, to le' port within 24 hours, and nt I to .Sulu. She
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    THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1899.
    138 3 fhere is to be a British India monthly from Rangoon to Zanzibar. Momvj Mauritius. |.M S. Esk is now at Shanghai, where >; tt d to remain for two months, and repairing. ward German mail steamer d this morning with the Mail of April 30th. ire
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    CYCLE AND SNAKE.
    194 3 I in Engl in tli falls upon than the ump ne ti I) i it ol the ir lent cv ening. If, too, he nally io fly p making l eft i i bill and cot w ithou t does not mind, lbs withers in the East
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    THE ASSIZES.
    123 3 Assist s held in the Supreme on Tuesday, before Mr. Justice 1. (ones, Haji Abdul Karim, who d by un*- Sariman of stealing, Clyde Road, a box containing articlothing, notes and coins to the "I 9 -as sentenced to thrt c years imprisonment. g against Koon 1 ie*
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    ANOTHER PETTY WORRY.
    195 3 I'm a harmless Piece Goods Johnny in a loca Import Firm, And I've still an even temper though I've served a hve-year term. When I state that in that period I have never sworn a swear V a Dealer— That will guarantee my temper where. Yes liy
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    THE HANKOW-CANTON RAILWAY.
    322 3 1 eh the I for ForIr. Veibuigh interest in S: iim on the Hankow nton lin.- wa? a roughh in satisfactory on< ill d< übtless remt i »< i the circum. i" tober last Sir t iaude Ma< i made a claim to th_ Tsung-li>Yamen on b
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    THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY AND THE NETHERLANDS INDIES.
    99 3 THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY AND THE NETHERLAN DS INDIES. 1 he I >llowing is the copy of a telegram received by His Excellency the Governor m the Governor General oi Netherlands India, on May 24th Accept my congratulations on Her Imperial Majesty'- eightieth birthday Van dbr Wyck." The German cruiser LLertha
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  • Correspondence.
    • Letter
      A Suggestion for the Sporting Club Committee.
      259 3 A Suggestion for the Sporting Club Committee. Dlar Mr Editor, Yesterday I was at the races and I noticed one thing to which I would like to call your attention. I did not like to see the soldiers of the regiment and the sailors obliged to herd with all the
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    OVER THE CHESS-BOARD.
    155 3 Gentlemen, to solace their wearied minds by honest pat playe at chesse, the astronomer's game, a d the philosopher's game, which .iiv.i^s, thyi 'AiUo, ;<.^>^.j.ica ihcyr minds, and o body in the mean season." VII oMiiMiti rts »h ultl 1 Iressed lo the Chess Probfe i No.
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    Problem No. 148.
    27 3 B) Mi 11. A. Wood. Shaw {A Prize Winner White to pa}- and mate in two moves. t*!ac!. 4 piet es) White 10 pieces).
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    Ruy Lopez.
    237 3 White— t Mayet. Black— A. Anderssen. i P-K4 P-K4 S Pxß P X P 2Kt-KB: Kt_Qß3 KtxP P-Kt6 3 8-Kt s B-B 4 10P-Q4; KtxP 4P-B3 Kt-B3 uO-Kt 4 (aj KxP(b) sBxKt (Jxß i2(JxKt(cj H x Pch 6 Casdes B-KKts 13 XX B O-OSch(d) 7 P-KR3 P-KR4I And
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    End-Game No. 10.
    50 3 I ving very pretty position occurred al the Hanlry Club. The winning continuation mimissed VVI Is point R i illy lost. *h* noun ix mot f- How i iQ x Rch X KxR 2 O Bch Xl-Xl R-KBoch K-Kt jQxKtch KxQ R-BBmate Cot ti prt is, Oudley.
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    CHESS NOTES.
    316 3 riii ess uh inie graceful lion with the I lh oming Lot don lourna t. Tl rtt a -cial sou 1 _< Id medal, I *h winner in iment, and also to dn ol most I int game. The testimonial to Mr. J. H, kburne, pro- I i
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    Problem No. 149.
    21 3 E. N. FRANKBNSTeiN. White to play and mate in two moves. Blai k 4 pieces). White (6 pieces).
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    Game No. 145.
    73 3 A live!) example of Australian pla}. King's Gambit Declined 'hite—Dawson Black—Young, 1 P-K4 P-K4 12 R-KKti R-Ktch 2 P-KIU P-Q4 n K-B2 Kt-B3 rKPxP P-K*-, übxKt Bxß 4 Ki-OB* Xi Kl', isR-Kt.s P-KKt.s SP-QJ B-OKt.5 ioB-Kt_ 0-Kt2 6PxP KixKP 17RXB OxQch 7O O4 BxKich iSKtxQ PxR 8
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    CRICKET.
    232 3 S.C.C. v. Next XVI. Played at the Esplanade yesterday resulted in a win for the S.C.C. by 66 runs For the XL, Reid took six wickets for 21 runs, Davis five for 23 for the Next XVI. Ford took four for 15, Wollerstan four for Dunman b Benjafield 1
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    Game No. 146.
    36 3 Professor A. Anderssen, the famous German chessist, enriched the world with numerous brilliant games, of which the following is well worth of republication. It was played during the London International Tournament of 1851
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    THE BIRTH-DAY BALL AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
    2598 4 THE BIRTH-DA Y BALL AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE. In accordance with loyal precedent a large gathering of resident? from Singapore, the other Settlements and the Native States assembled last night at Government House in response to the invitation of Governor Sir Charles Mitchell, to celebrate Her Majesty's Birthday. The weather could
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    SHOCKING OUTRAGE AT SERANGOON.
    213 4 SHOCKING OU TRAGE AT SERANGOON. A dastardly outrage was perpetrated un 4t young lady staying in Singapore last evening. Miss Beattie, daughter of Mrs. 4Steve Harper of Selangor, and niece of Mr. Archie Hat per, is staging on a visit with Mr. J. G. Boyd. Yesterday afternoon she went out
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    THE LATEST GERMAN STEAMER COMPANY.
    101 4 A retired Ceylon colonist writes to the Ceylon Observer While travelling on the Continent I heard that a German line was then arranging for six steamers for trading with the East— cargo and passengers—and that the route was to include Rangoon, in competition with the
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    SINAGPORE VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY.
    62 4 Corps Orders. Head Quarter Office. Singapore, 25th May, 1899. 1. Orderly Officer for the ensuing week, 2nd Lieut. K. J. Rf-njafield. 2. Posting. lhe following Gentlemen having been duly elected and posted to Subdivisions as follows. Mr. K. Baddeleyto No. 3. Air. (1 Hutchison to No. 4.
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    WHAT HAD HE On.
    129 4 On his way home Sir West Ridgeway paid a visit to Nice. A correspondent of Vanity Fair says a French aper announced the event as follows:— "The Right Hon. Mr. Sir Ridge-way the Governor ot ihe eylon Islands, arrived in Nice this afternoon in his full
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    THE NEW KOWLOON TERRITORY.
    905 4 Mori Troops imd GuaaoATa l Thr VoLuaTiaasCatLßD Kowloom City Tsrbm P os The great activity which has p« tary circles during the last due to orders received from policy of entering into intermit with the Chinese Government apparently, been abandoned, for pear that having decided to
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    FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1899.
    682 5 amoot. the Penang Town Hall hanged himself in the Town Hall. \)r. Bolt, the Government Analyst arrived lay morning in the German mail Mr arrived at Penang from and has taken up the duties of Mr Justice Law. X of it. A Chinaman bangn toping market
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    Correspondence.
    46 5 Another Petty Worry. ly THE Kditor. Sir, I, who know, think it only fair to the Import and Export Office to state that the importing experiences of the individual who writes under the name Joss Chin Chin loss' are pure, unadulterated fiction. A\ n Bosh.
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    INDIAN TELEGRAMS.
    400 5 Military Aid to the Civil Power. Simla, May 15.— A salutary reminder appears :n t day's General Orders calling the attenti m of all ommandtng Officers to the fact that they alone when requisitioned by the < uil po'ver, are res-p-nsible for conducting the operations and for judging
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    SUARCITY OF LABOUR IN THE STRAITS.
    581 5 SUARCITY OF LABOUR IN THE STRAITS. Go V REM OR s ReSPONSI Bl LITY. Complaints are prevalent, not only in Penang and the- Province, b t also throughout the protec ed Native States, of the numeiical and physical in>t imported labour, both Indian md Chinese, and it is urgently neede
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    LATER THAN THE GERMAN MAIL
    628 5 Ihe Church of Baaiawp. Yesterday Dr. Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Dr. Maclagan, Archbishop of York, received an influential deputation of laymen. Both Primates expres^edja belief that the Bishops would succeed in satisfying all fair-minded churchmen. Dr. Maclagan declared that the claims of the laity
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    PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE IN JAPAN.
    311 5 PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE IN JAPAN. The Tokyo (.hamber of Commerce and <>ther public bodies in the capital (says tlie Asahi) have approached the Yokohama General Chamber of Commerce with a view to form a league of foreign and Japanese merchants for the purpose of promoling mutual friendship, now lhat the
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    SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1899.
    606 5 H. M. S. Barfleur is expected at Nagasaki to dock. The homeward Russian transport Nijni Novgorod arrived this morning from V!adivostock bound for Odessa. Captain J. H. Nesbitt, of the British steamer Zicccna, from Iloilo, leports that on 15th May he passed a full-rigged ship abandoned
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    POLICE NEWS,
    110 5 About 3 a.m. the ho-jse of a Malay oi Tanjong Pagar Road named C. Xavierwas broken into. Three silver mounted cane*valued at $5-50 were si *>lcn. A Chinamar named Ang (Juab ha- been arrested. Yesterday morning about 8 o'clock Lee Chee Hee a Chinamar lef: his house 45
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    TOPICS OF THE WEEK.
    1104 6 Quicguid agunt homines nostri est far r ago Übelli. JUVKNAL. The Coghlan-incident, and the comments it has evoked in the press of all nations, make it clear that the Americans need a few lessons in the art of dignity. Which is a topic are have often
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    AMERICA AND THE PHILIPPINES.
    585 6 hoasioKEßS I r-CoixiK. Svie. Manila, .May 18. —Mr. Higgins, Manager of the Manila* Dagupan Railway, was able to gc t through tbe rebel lines on bis trolley, and is now in Manila. The rebels mad** no objection lo his leaving, in tact, they issued an order
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    37 6 I lie salaries ol the European start* of the P. and O. Company in India, China and Japan have been placed on a gold basis. This involved an increase of £8,800 in the expenditure of the Company.
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    THE CHINESE PROTECTORATE.
    731 6 The annual report of the Protector of Chinese appears in this week's Government Gazette and has appended to it many tables and returns showing the extent and variety of subjects connected with the Chinese that this official has to deal with. Mr. Evans says that the year
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    91 6 Ihe new enamalled street signs beinr put up by the Municipality are blue on white, instead of the old white on blue (although both are intended to be read The spelling seems to have received some attention, the Brass Bassa Road" becoming Bras Basah Road." The latter gives some indication
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  • Correspondence.
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      "Another Petty Worry."
      360 6 IO THK CD. TOR. "A Suggestion por -the Sporti COMMiTTEI lo the Editor. Sir,— The letter signed Civilian your issue of the 25th instant certv touches upon a service grievan almost astonishing the amount of j nf a ence and wanted consideration sh towards the working portion
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    A NON-COMMISSIONED Officer.
    169 6 SiX, The spirit in which the Itttei \nti Bosh was written is not warranted by anything contained in the poetii rom« tmunication of Joss Cbinchinjoss," who, ii anything, erred on lh<t side of leniency. The Import and Export Department pub itself under an unnecessary i»urdrn by stubbornly
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    THE MIGHTY "I WHO-KNOW."
    134 6 THE MIGHTY I WHO-KNOW." It's always the way with the l-who-knt their grand magniloquent style I ne'.r truly com They know and that is enough for th*-" 1 the world besjde Yes, they cover the ground it 4 The) know and none knows a- they knowknow let that sufhee. They
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    28 6 H.M. S Orlando >ai!s feu P Saturday. The Orlando may be month during which the ship's will go through their annual tn course on the Penang rifle n
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    JAVA NEWS.
    777 7 0. n Ccrresponaent.y 3 i pox i*- raging seriously at Padang j th e mortality is causing much anxiety. Wright, the General Manager of the m g Lebong Mine, reports to his t ors trom Lebong Donok under date ...sth that the road from Lebong Doiok to Teis
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    NOTES FROM THR NORTH.
    1558 7 News received from Canton by a Shanghai contemporary states that Viceroy Tan of that city has received positive information that the coming summer will see a repetition of a rebellion in Kuangsi province similar to that which took place there last summer. Viceroy Tan has, in
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    CHINESE ASSAULTS ON LADIES AT HONGKONG.
    480 7 (Hongkong Daily Press, 15th It is many years since any particular crime has so stirred the colony as the assault and robbery committed upon two ladies walking along that favourite promenade, **-owen Road, on Friday afternoon. A week or two previously a similar robbr-ry
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    PLAGUE AT PENANG.
    168 7 A Government Gazette extraordinary is issued to-day containing the following Notification having been received of tbe occurrence at Penang of three fatal cases of bubonic plague, it is hereby notified that the provisions of the Venice Convention applicable to the ca-e published in the Gazette of December
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    GAZETTE NOTIFICATIONS.
    124 7 The leave of Mr. C. G. Garrard, asst. registrar of the Supreme Court, Malacca, has been extended to Nov. 30th. The examination in Malay of officers in the Civil Service is in future to take place in the Native States. Two standards are prescribed, with marks, of which
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    ADMIRAL DEWEY PREPARING FOR DEPARTURE.
    176 7 Manila, May 12.— Yesterday, at cablegram was received from Washington announcing the return of A miral Dewey to the United States, and instructing him to turn over his command to aptain Barker, o* the Oregon. The Admiral will take the Olympia home via Suez. The
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    THE HONGKONG HINTERLAND.
    106 7 Serious Allegation ugainsi the Canton Viceroy. 'Special to China Mail.) Shanghai, May 19 It has transpired at Peking that His Excellency Tan, the Viceroy of the two Kwang Provinces, has sen: a secret memorial to the Throne in which he eulogises the patriotism and bravery ot the
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    THE CEYLON CIVIL SERVICE AND MR. CHAMBERLQAIN.
    260 7 (Joe of "!i chief reasons alleged for Sir Frederick SaundeiV visit to Kurnpcon his retirement was hi desiie to get the Colonial Office to see the righteousness, as well as good policy, (A paying pen sions to reli ed local Public .Servants who
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    HEADS OF FIRMS AND VOLUNTEERS.
    214 7 Th- Kowloon Uiimcl'li.. Colonel K. B. Mainwaring, Acting CommandantHongkong Volunteer Corps, has addressed th a following letter to employers having Volunteers in iheir employ I should like tv place on record the gratificat.on it gave the Military Authorities on May ioth. to f.nd how promptly
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    14 7 All four Chinese torpedo uoats wine: ived last veek have b ft for ntsin.
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    MONDAY, MAY 29, 1899.
    651 8 H.M. S. Orlando left on Saturday night for Penang and the 4Siamese gunboat hi ur a tha left at noon yesterday for Bangkok. A mess hou.se has been established at .Seremban, and fifty three members have joined. It is under the management of Mr. Dykes. A
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    THE PLAGUE IN PENANG.
    49 8 Information ha.- been received from the Resident Councillor, Penang, to ther effect that th< precautions now beir.g taken at thai tilement against bubonic plague are disinfection and removal Irom their houses <>f al! who may have had personal corn n -nication with the diseased persons.
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    TERRIBLE AMOK OFF SINGAPORE.
    2112 8 Two Fanatics Dance About and Stab All Near Them. Five Killed and Thirteen Wounded. The Captain Shoots one of the Amokers and Captures the Other. One of the most dreadful instances of mengamok that has ever happened near Singapore took place on board the S S.
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    THE PHILIPPINE FIASCO
    368 8 (Hongkong P i CONTIMEO RksISTVNC X 01 1 11 V FILIPK From Filipino sources we arc inforn report that General Luna was severely wound and that (General Montenegro it/as Icilh near Malolos is false. All the Genei I serted, are alive, an I the country is i^
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    SHIPPING NEWS
    29 8 The Langbank Liven through from Went to East at on Sunday, and atjeight o'clock on a Shell line steamer p iss< 5 t! from West to East
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    40 8 Miss Beattie, the young i the victim of such cruel treatr. hands of a Chinese thief vvl.i on the Serangoon-road on VV last, is fortunately progressing favi towards recovery from the bruise wounds she received, but still suffering from shock.
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    SINGAPORE SPORTING CLUB.
    4241 9 i SPRING MEETING, I*oo. FIRST DAY.— Tuesday, May 23rd. _.VV. A. Cadell, Esq., Chairman a Payne^Sallwey, Ksq. D. I). Mackie. Ksq. D. Esq, A. S. Murray, Ksq. ,A. G. E. Velge, Esq.; G. P. Owen,— retary. .<. L. Casey, r. a. C. E Vel^e, Esq. Time-Keeper. A
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    Third Day Saturday May 27TH, 1809.
    3023 10 Tbe Sporting Club, and the general community have been particularly fortunate in the matter of weather for the Spring Meeting, which was brought to a succes^. fui conclusion on Saturday. As on the two first days, there was no rain for the third day,
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    THE INTER-STATE MATCHES.
    446 11 i l.t (ru ket match between Perak anel Igor was begun on Whit Monday, rain ialling incessantly from daybreak to m. and the ground being slow i omplete scores were Selangor. I. R. Hubback b Spink 32 c Spink b McKenzie S ftlassford b Spink 1 b
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    ANALYSIS OF-THE RACING.
    627 11 ANALYSIS OF- THE RACING. The following ran four times without being placed Midshipman, Janette and Patch. Hive times without being placed Vagrant. Three times without being placed Katsima, Chronic, Bestman, Lei' hoi and Young Gladstone. 1 wire without being pl feed Insolence, Bridesmaid, Cetewayo, Tynedale, Outram, Capsicum and Phill. Once
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    TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1899.
    723 11 .Mess s. Harte and Maxwell, solicitors, of Kinta. ha\e been appointed notaries public. Amadeus, the well known Java racer, the j property of Mr. A. Hoi ley. was sent to Europe yesterday by the German mail Arrangements are being perfected for an Inter-Colonial Exhibition at Hanoi,
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    CABLE WORK UNDER FIRE.
    339 11 The Recorder's" Boat in a Tk.hi Placi. Taken ior Americans A oi.i.i v 1-Rovi a Filipino Detach mbmt, .\mm:i< vn Oniihk and Tw. Malays 'The Tel -graph Company's Ship Recorder has gone up to the Philippine- to lay a new e*able connecting Cebu with, 110-ilo and
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    ANOTHER RUSSIAN LINE OF STEAMERS TO SINGAPORE.
    201 11 The Russian Steam Navigation and Commercial Company have decided to make their steamers call here. The first vessel the Odessa is expected to-morrow. She is bound f>r Vladivostock with over 1,000 emigrants. The Managing Director has been for man* years connected with the
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    PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.
    210 11 To-night at the Town Hall, as will be seen from the (U t iU in our advertisement i column.-, a i"b':..i and Ot chest ral Concert will be given by the full strength of the active members of the Society. The Choir include s nearly sixty members, the
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    36 11 The case of alleged grievance con. cated by B M." from Selangor i 1 to be rather dealt with in Sc' •< v the Selangor press if it comn d the journal p iblisl I if Kuala
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    MUNICIPAL COMMISSION.
    1904 12 May 291 h, 189c-. Tl c regular fortnightly meeting was held to-day, the c bemg present Mr. A. Gentle (President) Messrs. Meyer, W. Nanson, Choa Giang Thye, Evans, Sohst, and Colonel Pennefather. V INAN( E. The usual financial statement showed a balance of $119,96 as against 8128,129 on
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    THE SINGAPORE POLO CLUB.
    1189 12 Lieut. -Col. J. Rowlandson, and the Officers of The King's Own Regiment held an At Home yesterday afternoon, on the Polo Ground Race Course, under not very lively climatic influences. The sky was of a dull hue, there was not an apology for a breeze even,
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    A MYSTERIOUS VOYAGE.
    326 12 ing G: At .i lime when the public mind exercised in consequence of the bubonic plague it Pen .rig at d of a ten days' q larantine by th I of Netherlands ludi i in i proaching His Exci llencv territori it is reasonable for anybody lo
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    153 12 Mr. md [rs. A. i M tse their tw ft!, year of wedded yesterda) elebration of thi a Ball wa« g\\ 1 I Ist night at wl it h a the wholi ol the Vrmenian community Singapoi /a.- present. Mr. Muse.- highly r sident ol Sing and a usel 1
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      A Rectification.
      87 13 {a ru- I'-uiior. 3 —In my final note- which appeared n your Monday s issue, I drew attention to ,ke which I thought the handicapper had in giving Cu'z^an 11 stone i n lon Stakes and Gaylass 10 stone. mistake on my part, for which, an. rd course
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    AMERICA AND THE PHILIPPINES.
    242 13 Pkaci Negotiations. D Sails for \merica. 7 I pi no I in 10 hld a c nsiillati. n ill I May < General Elwell S. O is, G yen r 1 Phil.pj ...im, tndi r-i 1 Eighth Army ".irps, and tl c Uniti d States <
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    THE U.S. AND THE SULU ISLAND.
    40 13 ir P tl US Consul-General has n 1 civ. ci this morning a (>■ 1 M Itis, T.S. Military in the Philippines, staling that i I town in the Sulu Islands, has by American troops.
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    AFFAIRS IN THE PHILIPPINES.
    297 13 f \i ivi ion-4 Proi ia ion,,. to Daily Press." j k d May.— Aguinaldo's Commission I American < ommission this morning. i in Ci mmissioners presented a plan nt whith President McKinley, under i and pending .u-tion by Congress, h when the Filipinos lay down
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    THE TERRIBLE AMOK OFF SINGAPORE.
    955 13 I HI Isui i Ur. Mugliston opened an inquiry yesterday afternoon, at the Coroner's Court, Sepoy Lines, concerning the terrible deaths of five- people on board the S.S. Sri Pontianak on Saturday night. Captain Koenig's evidence was to the following effect. He was on watch
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    SHIPPING NEWS.
    190 13 The outward P. cS: O. mail steamer Bengal left Colo a bo 3 p. m. on Sunday and is due here on .Saturday afternoon. The P. O. s5. Pekin left Moji at 5 p.m. on Friday, the 26th instant, and is due to arrive here on (An June
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    TELEGRAMS.
    154 13 (Via Ceylon j London, .May 21 —The details of acti tn leu. hi between the force, under Colonel Evatl and the rebeh under Kabaiega on the oth Apnl, state that the right flan* of Colon. 1 Evan's force captinr d X 1!. irega and hi^ son Jas the hit
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    ARMED GANG-ROBBERY.
    253 13 lhe Judge- of Assize are siill too lenient in their sentence! on trmed gang-robbers. Mr j Juiki Hyndman Jones lias, h-r instance, wlul silting at Singapore, sentenced two such crtmi- nals Ui leu and c;^ln years' rigulOUS impusonment, lespectively. Each of these periods is shod enough to allow
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    297 13 ihe 2nd XI ol the S. C. C. play the Sergeants of the K.O.R. at Cricket ou Saturday, at Tanglin. A' e>ut 9 am. yesterday a coolie named Fe Ah lok opened a bt>x containing detonateirs, and took out one. lt exploded in his right band and blew oil the
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    BRITISH SHIPS IN DISTRESS.
    312 13 1 c following extract from a despatch from the Secretary of S ate for India to the Govt rnment of India i» published The facts app. .r to be as foil 1 China w;.. wrecked in the Red S. she was salved, and her salvors proposed
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    SERIOUS CARRIAGE ACCIDENT.
    219 13 A serious carriage accident occurred just at the foot of Fort Palmer last evening, liy which the vehicle of Mr. A. Kidd, Ll yV< Surveyor, was smashed, and Mr X dd somewhat badly damaged. Mr. Kidd wis (Irving home, accompanied by Mrs. Xi Id, when a horse
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    "SR. DON REGINALDO WATSON."
    232 13 This is only our old friend "Jack," who has thus blossomed out in Mexico, because there happens to be another Watson in the vicinity. He writes, in a private letter, that he li fl Singapore on Dec. i6th, stayed two weeks in Ceylon, and arrived iv
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    144 13 I here were y t deaths irom cholera in Maulmain duri g the week ended 6th inst against 62 duri-- tin- previous week. Ihe detth iate foi ihe week was returned as 73*63 per thousand per annun At the Edinburgh University Graduation Cer» monial on tiie- 14th April Mi-- Agnes
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    WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1899.
    514 14 The half yearly sale of work in connection with the Chinese Girls School will be held in the Town Hall on June 23rd. The Captain of the S 5. Kamakwa Maru reports having passed on the 25th inst. in Lat. S'4s N., Long. 81 48 E.
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    ALLEGED MURDER CASE.
    180 14 A Chinaman named Ong Cheng Lian on he I ith inst. want to Way an g Satu Police Station, and reported that the- wife of his friend Ong Lian had died from consumption. The Police Constable in charge registered the death, and then went with the nun
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    SHIPPING NEWS.
    102 14 lhe Italian ss. Bisagno was given pra« tique yesterday afternoon and she proceeded to the wharf to coal. The Bisagno arrived ou the 24'h inst. from Hongkong and she had tr; go to the quarantine ground for seven day> She will not break her voyage as usual at
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    THE AMOK CASE.
    62 14 lhe case of Mat Salleh— the son of the man Amang shot on board the S. s. s>/ Pontianak on the 27th instant who is alleged to have stabbed several people on the same occasion was mentioned before Mr Clayton tl i~ morning. As the accused is
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    A LADY'S LETTER.
    1237 14 My dearest Mab, I feel quite distracted, trying to recollect all the frocks and gossip I took note of on Saturday last for yon special edification and hardly know wh »c to begin, there is so much to tell you. We had lovely weather on Saturday and
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      "Another Petty Worry."
      167 14 I i rm Em roa. pi i red 1 Import and a import of j it no tl who I ess. loma pii j man of some mding and bay in stating that the I. and K. Office b never worrie i me nor shown the slightest
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      For THE Person WHO Wanted Church Parades.
      102 14 For THE Person WHO Wanted Church Parades. THE Kill FOR. Dear Sir, —If ll dlowing arrangeine tit* il ol it friend <<t Parad faint w e are exceedingly sorry, as tunes it present are rather busy and we cannot afford o> be ;on show o i "(ten rh ips after
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    HE WON BE HAPPY TILL HE GETS
    235 14 EM.— Pea Did he w int to see the c- tldiers All di iwn up in grand array Bless his Heart, wh} 4ip al I g He can sre them every day, On parade at ix each m an ng, Excepting Sunday's. -her
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    45 14 The weekly edition of the Singapore Free Press to be published at noon to-mor-row will contain the full account of the three days racing, revised and added to. The weekly also contains the full account of the terrible amok ise on board the Sri Pontianak
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    TRADE AND COMMERCE IN THE FAR LAST.
    364 14 Mr. John Barrett', late United Stal to Siam, delivered an address or \1 v a baliers Mall, .*M. Svvnhm s Care, undet picefs of the London Chamber ol Comi Th- Present Conditions and I- of Trade and c mimerce in the I eh
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    MAIL NEWS.
    329 14 ORCB laRRIAUI < duch the action ol York respo I I t v! m i .Mr. Pel M SI i Frida) and withi "our hou I ny, ich, M I ont nam-,- had b ntioni rl in ndal fi r st ISicyclk Skirts in »l. room in bicycle
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    SINGAPORE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.
    886 15 >.\]> Ori hkmril OMCBRT. al the down Hall the Choral s< ii'»ns of the Philharmonic I ye a joint programme of music, a popular character some mg given to selections from As the platform ar com- ,nl y limited, recourse plan of alloUit.^ t<> the Choir, and
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    EXCHANGE.
    82 15 (Corrected up to May 31 On Londo Bank 4 m/s 2 o aemaud ''"-fi Private credit! 3 m/s 2/0 documents 3 m/s %U credits 6 m/ 5... 2/0 FRANC S, demand 250 A Germany, demand 203 India, T. T 50 j Hongkong, demand Yokohama, demand 4^ p iri Java,
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    PRODUCE.
    166 15 PRO DUCE. L.May 31 *68 5 o meter do. Cube No. i... g' 20 Pep| er, .'Hack (ordinary Spore) tc 80 do. White, (Fair L/W— s%) „4150 Nutmegs nos *o mc lb.) 65 do. (80s to the lb) 80. Mace r^Banda) Si Cloves (Amboina) 32 Liberian Cotfee 1650 Tapioca, small
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      QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY.
      115 15 Widely Honoured. Her Majesty the Queen.- eightieth 'Birthday has been honoured throughout the world. Colonial Governors have held let i s and given banquets, and salutes hat been in all Her Majesty's po»»>essioi s* PR' SIDENT McKINI EY'S CONGRATULATIONS. The President of the United Stales telegraphed tbe congratu
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      PROPOSED REFORMS IN THE TRANSVAAL.
      56 15 Opinions Divided. The Transvaal Volksraad bas considered the proposals ot President Kruger wilh legard to the Franchise reforms. Ibe tone r.f the discussion was unf \mirable to tbe proposals, which appe ar to have been considered too liberal, whereas tb« Uitlander. regard tbem as absurdly
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      ITALY AND CHINA.
      74 15 San-mun Bay Purely Commerc al. Speaking in the Italian Chamber, Signoi Pelloux stated that diplomatic negoti ti ins with regard to Sanmun Bay will he resumed, the object of the occupation of tbat bay being purely commercial. I THE U. S. AND THE PHIi IPPINKS Break-down of
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      THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS.
      31 15 Continued Success. rhe Australian Eleven ha* beaten au England Eli v. n I 72. lhe representatives ol Australia have also beaten Lancashiie by an innings and S4 runs.
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      THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
      75 15 T HE PEACE CONFERENCE. Arbitration to be Promoted. A delegate to the Peace Conference the Hague state-* that according to the first exchange of virus the Conference is certain to effect somi thing in tbe direction of arbitration, and also in taking step- to humanize war. Disarmament Unlikely. It is
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      THE DREYFUS CASE.
      108 15 Rev irion and Re trial Almost Certain Court of Cassation in Favour. The reportei the Court of Cassation has pronounced favour of revision in the Dreyfus case. a»d i new trial of Dreyfus i by Court Man r. The Court of i* ation in doubted I) endor.se
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      THE U.S. AND THE PHILIPPINES.
      102 15 America Feeling Depressed. More Troops Needed. Ne.v Levy i f Volunteers Probable Sure .o be Unpopu ar. Uneasiness p avails it Washing .ving tothe latest M nila showing tbat it is impossibl to establish the supremacy of tla Americans without more troops. This will mv
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      208 15 Raffles Hotel. PA IRON IZEI > by Royalty, Nobility and Distnguisbed Personages, including H. K. H. Prince Damron H. R. H. Prince Sevaster. 'lis Grace The Duke of Newcastle. Th. Ki^hi Hon'bl^Tht Earl or Dysart Lord an Lady Braye. Loid D rmer. Lor! Cecil Lord Valletort. Major'Gene.al Sir HenryColletr, K.C.tt
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      232 15 j RILEY, HARGREAVES ENGINEERS j Boiler-Makers, Shipbuilders General Contractors. WE ARE PREPARED TO SUPPLY FROM STOCK H_-JP OI oM mm+nm^OA m~* 4^m\ rumps. Mining, Horizontal and Vertical Direct Acting Duplex and Special Sinking pumps Up tr) 20,00. I onr Boilers for MiningPurposes. Locomotive, Colonial and Vertical Boi'ers in Stock and
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    THE TRANSVAAL.
    45 16 The Bloemfontein Conference. A Successful Solution not Anticipated* Sir Alfred Milner has started for Bloemfontein, where he is to meet President Krugf r. In political circles at tbe Cape there is no sanguine expectation of the success of th«* meeting in arranging matters.
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    PLAGUE AT ALEXANDRIA.
    165 16 Eight caM-s of the plague have occurred at Alexandria, four of the patients being Europeans. A RUSSIAN RAILWAY LOAN. Endeavour to Raise Money in England. Tin Correspondent of the Times at Peking st.at.-s that negotiations are going on for Russian Railway Loan in England. Four and a
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    MAJOR MARCHAND.
    40 16 MAJOR MAR CHAND Fnthusiastic Welcome at Toulon. Mij «r v i chand h an iv« rl at Toulon. I* VI i il authorities and deputations fn m fferenl bodies in the City have re- d him with great enthusiasm. I
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    THE DREYFUS CASE.
    97 16 Pr ii the !ourt of Cassation, j fci port r I .lounces Strongly r the Juno euce of Oreyfus. I R ioi has ouciuded his I »to tl i f Cassation Ihe new fa< I wis legally required for v-•»n v mil I rery of two letters
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    "THE HONOUR OF THE ARMY."
    27 16 c declared that the honour ot the army did not require the detention ol an inno- i .it man at Devil's Island.
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    GREAT SENSATION IN FRANCE.
    33 16 The Anti-Revisionists Disconcerted. A Bribery Theory, M. Beau pre' s s eech caused an immense sensation. Tbe Ami Revisionists are dumbfounded, and declare that Beau pre has been bribed.
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    AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION.
    30 16 Favourable Referendum in South Australia. The final referendum in favour oi or against federation in South Australia resulted in G6,000 voting in favour of it and 7,000 against.
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    THE DERBY.
    58 16 Yesterday's Prices in the Betting. Tbe betting for the Derby on Tuesday was 2 to 1 on Flying Fox, 5 to 1 against Holocauste, 100 to 8 against Oppressor; 20 to 1 against Damocles 40 to against My Boy 50 to 1 against Desmond and Innocence, and 66
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    CLEARANCES.
    1026 16 May sj. BbLLBROPHOM, Brit, str., Peters, for Penang. LOODIAMA, Brit, str., Hardcastle, for Madras, via ports. Isek, Brit, str., VV alker, tor Rangoon. Sarie Borneo. Dut. str., Tuckey, for Sourabaya via ports. Van der Lyn, l)„t. str., Schmitz, for Banjermassm. G.Vab Bylahot, Duu sir., Arnold, for Sourabaya R. K.
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    SHARE LIST, MAY 31st, 1899.
    391 16 Quotation. Capital. Paid Up. Sharks Paid t j Bank of China and Japan, Ltd. Nominal. f 2,000,000 450,968 199 875 12 5 Deferred. £5 Buyers. .~o ?i Bell's Abestos Eastern Agency. S3 Sellers. 10,000 \k B's8 58 8 -584 £1 awr -p. 1- Cfc »i4'6
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      1135 16 VBSSKLS IN PORI t-'la^s Tons ComrMnder? Arrive r 1 Rbbp lb Brit, cruiser, 805 Booth April 2? Hongkong Roads. Other Vessels Flaes ft Tona Masters Arnveo rr»i ;i C KOl Alboin Brit. 649 Ritchie Ma> 22 rtangl r Argus Brit. 1822 Cunj M iy ;i M^lh x A-sTKAiaxn 8ri».2554 May
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